New Munster Gazette – 1848 – No. 23

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✨ Proclamation and Gazette Notice

NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
(PROVINCE OF NEW MUNSTER.)

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

By His Excellency’s Command,
ALFRED DOMETT, Colonial Secretary.

VOL. I.] WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1848. [No. 23.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency EDWARD JOHN EYRE, Esquire, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of New Munster, in the Islands of New Zealand.

WHEREAS, by an Ordinance enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council, Sess. 8, No. 9, intituled "An Ordinance for Registering Births, Deaths, and Marriages in the colony of New Zealand," it is enacted, that for the purposes of the said Ordinance "it shall be lawful for the Governor (or Lieutenant-Governor), by Proclamation to be for that purpose issued, to divide the colony of New Zealand into such and so many districts as he shall think fit, and every such district shall be called by a distinct name, and shall be a Deputy Registrar’s district : Provided always that it shall be lawful for the Governor to revoke such Proclamation, and to issue from time to time a new Proclamation, dividing the colony anew, into such and so many districts as he shall think fit :"

And whereas, by a Proclamation dated the 15th May, 1848, the Province of New Munster was divided into certain districts, to be the Deputy Registrar’s districts thereof :

Now therefore I, the Lieutenant-Governor, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said in part recited Ordinance, do hereby revoke so much of the said Proclamation as relates to the boundaries of the district of Otakou in the said Province of New Munster, and I hereby appoint and declare that the said district of Otakou shall be divided into two districts—the names and boundaries of which shall, for the present, be as follows :—

DISTRICT OF OTAKOU.

All that part of the Middle Island lying between the district of Akaroa and a direct

VUW Te Waharoa — New Munster Gazette 1848, No 23

The Province of New Munster was led by Lieutenant-Governor Edward John Eyre, whose residence was First Government House (depicted) on the land where Parliament now sits in Wellington.

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🏛️ Proclamation regarding Deputy Registrar’s districts

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
KeywordsProclamation, Districts, Deputy Registrar, Otakou, Akaroa
👩‍💼 Officials

Edward John Eyre, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of New Munster

📰 Gazette Notice

Domain📰 NZ Gazette
KeywordsGazette, Public Notifications, Official Communications
👩‍💼 Officials

Alfred Domett, Colonial Secretary

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